Animal testing

Animal testing is a use of animals in scientific experimentation. Many different organizations are doing experiments on animals, for researches in the fields of medicine, psychology, cosmetics and detergents. This issue is a very complex issue, and there are a lot of opposite opinions about it among the public and among scientists in particular.

On the one hand, Testing on animals has helped develop vaccines for many life threatening diseases. The cure and the vaccine for AIDS were discovered by animal testing; also, most of the development in finding a cure for cancer is based on animal testing. For a fact, the animal testing is required in order to make a progress and advances in the field of medicines.

On the other hand, there is a big ethical problem about this issue. The animals, which are forced into these experiments, are suffering intense pain and usually being held under disgraceful conditions. Almost all the animals are being killed after the experiments, if the experiment itself didn't kill them. In fact, every minute an animal dies as a result of an experiment - just in the United States. Also, the animal's body reacts differently from the human's body, so the results are sometimes misleading and can be very harmful for the human's body.

My opinion is mixed. On the one side, I think the experiments are very cruel for the animals. On the other side, I understand that there are sometimes significant experiments, that are obviously can't be tested on humans. In summary, I think scientists should minimize the animal experiments that made for the cosmetic industry; and do the combination of the serious, important, practical experiments, with appropriate conditions for the animals.

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